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WASHINGTON — Former special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith sat for a closed-door deposition Wednesday with the House Judiciary Committee, defending his conclusion that President Donald Trump engaged in a criminal ...Read more

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in a decision experts say will ...Read more

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty.

Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead of stab wounds Sunday at their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday said she would issue an order requiring the government to reinstate hundreds of employees fired during the federal government shutdown and stop ongoing efforts to fire more ...Read more

In a move that significantly expands its footprint in the mortgage servicing landscape, Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it would acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. in an ...Read more

Medline Inc. shares surged 41% in their trading debut, after the medical supplier raised $6.26 billion in the year’s biggest initial public offering.

The shares closed at $41 each on Wednesday in New York, versus the ...Read more

Six weeks after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica and left behind an unprecedented trail of destruction, hundreds of people remain unable to return home, while many others are still without electricity.

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Sen. Ted Budd offered an unusually blunt stance on a former lawmaker and fellow North Carolina Republican after allegations surfaced that Budd was blocking the Senate confirmation hearing of former Rep. Mark Walker to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man held at California's newest and largest immigration detention center could face "imminent death," attorneys argued in an emergency motion filed late Tuesday, asking a federal judge to order ICE to ...Read more

CHICAGO — Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and dozens of federal immigration agents spent hours Wednesday driving around Chicago and the suburbs, appearing to make minimal arrests but facing continued pushback from ...Read more

Jack Smith told a congressional committee Wednesday that he found proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump committed crimes as the former special counsel was expected to face harsh grilling by ...Read more

The Senate confirmed in a 67-30 vote Jared Isaacman to head NASA after President Donald Trump nominated and withdrew the nomination earlier this year, and then renominated the billionaire entrepreneur last month.

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LAS VEGAS — Federal officials gave the clearest timeline yet for when a breakthrough could come in closed-door negotiations over the water supply of 40 million Americans.

On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of Water and ...Read more

SEATTLE — A storm brought high winds and heavy rain to Western Washington overnight into Wednesday, leaving more than 200,000 customers in the dark after days of flooding.

Wind speeds reached the 50s and 60s in Seattle ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate blocked a bid Wednesday by Sen. Adam Schiff to require the Pentagon to make public an unedited video of the September U.S. strike that killed two people who had survived an initial attack on an ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new federal policy that limited congressional members’ ability to visit immigration detention centers, siding with a group of Democratic lawmakers that included U.S. ...Read more

NOVI, Mich. — Two months after a gunman attacked a Church of Latter Day Saints in Grand Blanc Township and then set the building ablaze, Michigan State Police met with faith leaders on Wednesday in Novi to give them tips...Read more

The architect behind Delta Air Lines’ global network and its push to be a “premium” airline is retiring.

Delta’s president of nearly a decade, Glen Hauenstein, is stepping down Feb. 28, the company announced ...Read more

In central Haiti, where residents take pride in working the land, the humanitarian situation is rapidly deteriorating, the United Nations warned, as escalating attacks by criminal gangs in the Artibonite region leave aid ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gil Gerard, the actor who became a childhood hero to many for his lead performances in the 1979 movie “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” and its subsequent TV incarnation, died early Tuesday, his wife ...Read more